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Other prerequisite software: IBM Business Process Manager 8.5.6 , IBM Process Designer 8.5.6, IBM Stewardship Center 11.5.0 installed and configured.
IBM Stewardship Center provides the ability to perform proactive data stewardship activities around Physical MDM with a dashboard called “SEARCH”. It allows you to Search for an Entity , select one among various search results and View/Update various details about that Entity like Addresses, Names and so on.
It also provides a graphical view of the relationships of the party with other parties in a tab namely “Explore” in Edit Party screen.
This document concentrates on getting the required labels on this graphical view for custom added relationships on MDM.

Problem: I added a new relationship type with type code “300000” in cdreltp of MDM and I have two parties with relationship created among them. The screenshot in Explore tab now is:

1. Login to IBM Process Designer with required credentials.

2. Provide edit access to this user to MDM Application Toolkit in the list of toolkits.

6. Add the following line of code at the end of the script.
tw.local.labels.put("PARTYREL_300000",”CEO”);
Note : If you need to do localization for this label , you can add it in the Localization Resource “MDM_Hierarchy_Resource” and use it accordingly in the script as
tw.local.labels.put("PARTYREL_300000", tw.resource.MDM_Hierarchy_Resource.CEO_Relationship_Label);

7. Once done these changes, save all the modifications.

8. Take a new snapshot of MDM Application toolkit

9. Upgrade the dependency of MDM Application toolkit in MDM Stewardship Toolkit and create a new snapshot of MDM Stewardship Toolkit.

You may have seen the recent tech talks that the team here have been producing for our clients. In these tech talks an IBM expert will talk through a specific MDM topic in great detail sharing the deep expertise of the architects and developers that are living and breathing the technology. These tech talks are provided for free and just require a simple registration process to allow you to attend. All sessions are recorded and replays will be available shortly afterwards.

One area of keen interest to our clients has been concerning the Stewardship and Governance capabilities provided by MDM, specifically the IBM Stewardship Center, that was released in MDM 11.3. So it falls to me to host the next MDM tech talk on June 23rd. In this session I will be discussing the new capabilities offered by the IBM Stewardship Center, how we are changing the game for stewardship teams looking to evolve their organization to be more reactive to data quality events, engaging line of business users to provide input to data quality issues and adding advanced business rules and intelligence to automate events from across the entire data quality landscape.

A one hour tech talk is no where near enough time to do such a broad and important area justice however, we will spend some time up front explaining IBM's perspective on Information Governance and how IBM's InfoSphere portfolio provides the market leading integrated suite of comprehensive governance capabilities that can flex to suit your specific industry requirements. We will dive into the IBM Stewardship Center and its comprehensive workflow engine, providing collaboration and orchestration across the enterprise and touch on the MDM Application Toolkit, a suite of accelerators designed and built by some of our development ninja's to make creating custom governance workflows and quick and easy experience....and if we have time we may even have a live demo of the latest version of the Stewardship Center. During the session the live chat will be open allowing you to ask questions and I will have a team of experts ready to respond in real time.

If your organization is trying to address the growing focus on Information Governance, if you are trying to figure out how to make your Stewardship organization more efficient, or you just wanted to take a look at one of the coolest new features from the MDM team then don't miss the Master Data Stewardship & Governance tech talk on June 23rd at 10am Eastern......Register here

Skip the fluff and go deep into the technical details of InfoSphere MDM. In a series we're calling MDM Tech TV, several IBM engineers catch you up on technical topics. These informal video demonstrations give you a quick taste of various features.

You'll see the users and groups in the WebSphere Administrative Console. Then see how the properties files control groups, role mappings, and permissible states/actions for entities and roles. More details are in the docs.

Mike Adams and Gary Chen show the Batch Activity Dashboard where they view and manage batch tasks for data governance. The video features linking and persisting entities for a hybrid MDM implementation.

You'll see how to use the Batch Activity Dashboard to create, schedule, and manage MDM batch tasks such as suspect processing, name and address standardization, and entity persistence. More details are in the docs.

The three new videos complement the existing MDM videos:

MDM Workbench: Create and deploy a virtual configuration

Mike Cobbett creates and deploys a virtual configuration in the MDM Workbench. More details are in the docs.

MDM & Information Server Integration

Lena Woolf follows the path of MDM information with InfoSphere Metadata Workbench. See her demonstrate the MDM integration with Metadata Workbench by using the export feature in the MDM Workbench. More details are in the docs.

Plus several earlier demos of the MDM Workbench, the Application Toolkit, and the 11.0 installation.

Rarely do I talk to a customer about MDM without the role of Workflow being discussed within the first 10 minutes. Correct usage of Workflow when interacting with Master Data is important both for an effective Data Stewardship strategy but also to ensure that Master Data is served up to lines of business in an organized manner. IBM InfoSphere MDM provides robust Workflow capabilities out of the box that can be utilized across many domains, addressing workflow requirements for master data stewardship and governance as well as enterprise wide consumption.

Recently IBM has published some excellent information to help you understand how you have utilize MDM Workflow to improve your master data quality and enhance your enterprise processes. Check out the links below to understand how MDM Workflow can help you and your business....

I mentioned in my developerWorks status at the middle of last year that I was working on a redbook on MDM and BPM integration. Well I am pleased to announce that this redbook has now finally been published!

The redbook titled : 'Aligning MDM and BPM for Master Data Governance, Stewardship and Enterprise processes' provides a detailed insight into the business benefits of running MDM and BPM projects side by side. It explains how combining the benefits of IBM InfoSphere MDM and IBM Business Process Manager to provide a platform for Master Data Governance and Stewardship, providing you with an industry leading capability to improve the quality of your data. The book also includes a step by step guide explaining how to build applications, leveraging the MDM Application Toolkit for rapid construction of MDM focused business processes. Finally the redbook covers and introduction to the next generation Data stewardship capabilities provided by the InfoSphere MDM platform. The book has been authored by and contributed to by a number of experts from across IBM around the world and should help give MDM and BPM projects a push on the road to success.